Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Heaters for Tuesday. I am joined by Nick Buckley and Dan.

Today we're going to be talking about the fact of, do you remember the Ukrainian war?

I'm sure nobody does. Very in the distant past. The police and

crime commissioner for Greater Manchester. That nobody knows exists. And also they

have no idea which will be a conversation about local man anyway I have an announcement to make I believe which is just that tomorrow at 3 o'clock we'll be doing the

cyberpunk dystopia part 7 we were meant to do before but Karamazil so reschedule it and now it's here tomorrow at

three o'clock UK time so do come enjoy otherwise because we shall begin yeah so do you

remember the Ukraine war I'm not sure a lot of people do if you do remember it

There's some cheap merchandise available for it at the moment everything everything's sort of going cheap on this one

Not a lot of people still remember this one, but but it apparently it was it was a thing I was there yes

Up until relatively recently we're told this was this was a thing I remember the black and white movies about it

Yes, yeah.

Yes.

But well, it wasn't always a thing.

I mean, there was another thing before that which was COVID.

Now, I definitely remember that one because that one was 24-7 total narrative all the time

you know every politician every journalist every Twitter pundit know, every university admissions department and every

supermarket manager with a bloody budget for floor stickers and plexiglass, you know, it was,

it was, it was an all-encompassing narrative until relatively recently and if you remember they kind of walked

just right up to the brink on that one because people were getting fired loads of people lost

their jobs.

They threatened to sack something like 10% of the NHS

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